Winnie Mandela's last wish: “Mama” feared corruption would destroy the ANC….

Winnie Mandela, the late wife of South Africa’s first democratic president, Nelson Mandela, feared that corruption would destroy the African National Congress (ANC). In fact, she was so worried about it that she even enlisted the help of a former Apartheid-era Crime Intelligence (CI) officer Doc Pretorius to mitigate the damage. The two became so close over two decades that she called him “the son I never had” in the inscription to him of her book “491 Days”. Pretorius - who wrote a book titled “Winnie Mandela’s Last Wish” - gives BizNews the inside story of the “unholy trinity” between transnational organised crime, criminal terrorist groups and corruption that is “protected by securitisation structures”. He believes it is still possible to fix the problems in the country, and urges people to come forward to do so “because if we're not gonna work together, people might find out that they're going to get exposed…” He also shares details of a meeting between him, Mrs Mandela and Jacob Zuma; and reveals what she told him about the Stompie Affair that so severely damaged her international standing. - Chris Steyn